Cases on supply chain and distribution management [electronic resource] : issues and principles / Miti Garg and Sumeet Gupta, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.Description: electronic texts (400 p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781466600669 (ebook)
- Business logistics -- Case studies
- Physical distribution of goods -- Management -- Case studies
- Aeronautical supply chains
- Military logistics
- Commercial logistics
- Automotive supply chains
- Eco-friendly supply chain management
- Healthcare information
- Retail supply chains
- Risk management
- Supply chains of commodity products
- Trade friendliness
- Transport and logistics
- 658.7 23
- HD38.5 .C277 2012e
- Also available in print.
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references.
1. A Case study of Singapore as a logistics cluster / Rahul Krishnan ... [et al.] -- 2. Transport and logistics in Dubai: a high stakes play / Michael Thorpe and Sumit Mitra -- 3. Assessing trade friendliness of logistics services in ASEAN / Sumeet Gupta and Mark Goh -- 4. Fruitful market mediation: challenges in implementing coopetition / Lincoln Wood -- 5. Supply chains of commodity products in India: the case of rice / Deepti Dewani, Shreyansh Jain and Sumeet Gupta -- 6. Multilayered distribution system in India: practice and issues / Sumeet Gupta ... [et al.] -- 7. A study of eco-friendly supply chain management at cement industries of Chhattisgarh / Gazala Yasmin -- 8. When supply chain strategy does not match supply chain capabilities: lessons that can be learnt from the supply chain of Boeing 787 / Narasimha Lamba and Ehsan Elahi -- 9. The internationalization path of Wanxiang / Qing Lu, Yuan Sun and Mark Goh -- 10. Greening the automotive supply chain / Miti Garg -- 11. A case study of Singapore's automotive supply chain: preliminary analysis and findings / Balan Sundarakani, Robert De Souza and Mark Goh -- 12. GIS, grid computing and RFID in healthcare information supply chain: a case for infectious disaster management / Yenming J. Chen -- 13. Petroleum supply chain network design: a case analysis from Oman / Avninder Gill -- 14. Commercial logistics vs. military logistics: a conceptual analysis / Siva Kumar and Aaron Chia -- 15. Supply chain management for NGOs: case study of Akshaya Patra Foundation / Sumeet Gupta, Sanjib Pal and Saket Ranjan Praveer -- 16. Understanding supply chain risk management: an in-depth analysis / Sumeet Gupta ... [et al.] -- 17. Categorization of losses across supply chains: cases of manufacturing firms / Priyanka Singh, Faraz Syed and Geetika Sinha -- 18. An analysis of issues and possible remedies in the adoption of rfid in retail supply chains of India / Sumeet Gupta and Sanjib Pal.
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"This book introduces readers to a wide selection of case studies covering a multitude of supply chains in different economies of the world and examines major issues related to supply chain management"--Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed December 19, 2011).